Sculpture of a metal shelf with glass tiles and stretched canvas with an image of stacked notebooks

Stack of Diaries

Artist Lorna Simpson (American, born 1960)

Date1993

MediumPhotosensitive linen, glass blocks with vinyl, and steel shelving unit

DimensionsOverall: 81 1/2 × 28 1/4 × 18 in. (207 × 71.8 × 45.7 cm)

ClassificationSculpture

Credit LineMary and Leigh Block Museum of Art, Northwestern University, gift of Peter Norton

Object number2016.4.53

Collections

Reframing the Past

Text Entries

Huey Copeland, "Lorna Simpson, Stack of Diaries," essay from the publication Who Says, Who Shows, What Counts: Thinking about History with The Block's Collection (2021)

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